r30 file not working

Hello. I have just downloaded a film. I already have WinRar installed, but still when i go into the folder where the film is, there are "unknown" files such as r30, r31, r32. It only starts from r30 and upward. The thing is, that i AM able to unpack the files. But the only thing, that appears when i have unpacked the files, and playing it with Windows Media Player,- is the sound ! There is no visual content what so ever, and only thing runing is the sound. Im pretty sad about this, cause its a darn big film. Could anyone please help me with this one ? Looking forward to your reply. Thanks !

 

kimmiboy, your problem is nothing to do with the .r30 files.

It's normal for Windows to only recognise RAR multipart files to .r29. They still work in WinRAR.

Maybe you do not have the right codec, or maybe it's a deliberately bad file planted by the copyright owners.

Legal movies that you pay for don't have this problem.

 

Yea. but it doesnt explain what to do, when there is no sound...

 

Download and install G-Spot, identify the codec, check if you have it on your system, if not download and install it, then you'll see if it's a fake file or not.

Or burn it to a DVD as a data file and try to play it on a friend's computer.

 

Thx.. i have downloaded and installed about 233 codecs.. And is that all to be done ? still it doesnt work.. I have by a mistake made the SFV-file into a RAR format.. How to undo this mistake ?

 

Please explain what you mean. How did you do this?

 

i right clicked the SFV file, and pressed Open with.. And then i chose WinRar..

 

I still say you might have a fake file. They do exist. They are uploaded to discourage downloaders.

The sfv thing doesn't matter. It won't make any difference. Right click it and change to open with Notepad if you like.

SFV files contain CRC32 checksums which can be used to determine wether or not the files listed were downloaded correctly. So, after downloading a set of files, you can use a program like DupeNuker or ezCRC to calculate the CRC32 checksums and then compare them to the checksums in the SFV file. If they match, then everything was downloaded perfectly.

If you open an SFV file with Microsoft Word, or any other word processor that can run scripts, it is possible that a virus in the SFV could get you. When downloading text files, it always a good idea to open them with a bare-bones text editor like NotePad on Windows and TextEdit on the Mac, both of which come free with your computer.

Here is a sample SFV file:

------------ Begin Sample SFV File Listing ------------
;15000000 08:52.45 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part01.rar
;15000000 08:53.06 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part02.rar
;15000000 08:53.28 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part03.rar
;15000000 08:53.49 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part04.rar
;15000000 08:54.12 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part05.rar
;15000000 08:54.35 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part06.rar
;15000000 08:54.57 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part07.rar
;15000000 08:55.19 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part08.rar
;15000000 08:55.40 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part09.rar
;15000000 08:56.01 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part10.rar
;15000000 08:56.23 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part11.rar
;15000000 08:56.44 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part12.rar
; 2432113 08:56.48 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.part13.rar
; 13376 08:59.32 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.par2
; 397444 08:59.32 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.vol00+01.PAR2
; 794812 08:59.32 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.vol01+02.PAR2
; 1576248 08:59.32 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.vol03+04.PAR2
; 3125820 08:59.32 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.vol07+08.PAR2
; 6211664 08:59.32 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.vol15+16.PAR2
;11204548 08:59.32 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.vol31+29.PAR2
;15442596 08:59.32 2005-07-28 Some.File.avi.vol60+40.PAR2
Some.File.avi.part01.rar 5079A617
Some.File.avi.part02.rar 27001333
Some.File.avi.part03.rar C3B6525B
Some.File.avi.part04.rar B8C8C580
Some.File.avi.part05.rar EAFB98CB
Some.File.avi.part06.rar DB963752
Some.File.avi.part07.rar EC26E01A
Some.File.avi.part08.rar 837AE97F
Some.File.avi.part09.rar E580FB75
Some.File.avi.part10.rar 838EFC3C
Some.File.avi.part11.rar A45455D5
Some.File.avi.part12.rar FF34484F
Some.File.avi.part13.rar B963FE25
Some.File.avi.par2 61443265
Some.File.avi.vol00+01.PAR2 25FD04F2
Some.File.avi.vol01+02.PAR2 2C354FD1
Some.File.avi.vol03+04.PAR2 4FDE31A3
Some.File.avi.vol07+08.PAR2 1EEFB660
Some.File.avi.vol15+16.PAR2 FB8481AA
Some.File.avi.vol31+29.PAR2 95A49937
Some.File.avi.vol60+40.PAR2 286279AE
------------ End of Sample SFV File Listing ------------

The files shown above are a typical RAR/PAR set. Any lines of the SFV file that begin with a semicolon are comments and can be ignored. So, the first relevant line is: "Some.File.avi.part01.rar 5079A617." "Some.File.avi.part01.rar" is the name of the file, and "5079A617" is the value calculated when the data from the file is run through the CRC32 algorithm. "5079A617" is calculated on the computer of the person who posted the file. If the copy of "Some.File.avi.part01.rar" that you now have yields a value of "5079A617" then you have an exact copy.

 

Can someone please help me with this ?

 

I thought I had been. What don't you understand? Don't you like my answer?

 

I dont know about your advice, but it tryed downloading DivX and it all went well so thanks anyway..

 

Oh no, i understanded it quite well. but i wanted to try this other sollution.. Thanks for your effort, and keep up the good work

 

OK Good. I am happy you got a solution. Sorry for misunderstanding.

So you needed the DivX codec...